Newport, East Riding of Yorkshire

Newport is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 7 miles (11 km) east of the market town of Howden. It lies on the B1230 road to the south of the M62 motorway and on the banks of the Market Weighton Canal.

Newport
Newport
Location within the East Riding of Yorkshire
Population1,580 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSE858304
• London155 mi (249 km) S
Civil parish
  • Newport
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBROUGH
Postcode districtHU15
Dialling code01430
PoliceHumberside
FireHumberside
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament

According to the 2011 UK census, Newport parish had a population of 1,580,[1] an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,538.[2]

St Stephen's Church, Newport

Newport has a church, a school, a few shops, three public houses and two playing fields.

In 1823 Newport (then New Port with New Village, and the 'West Side' of the settlement), was partly in the parish of Eastrington, partly part of an extra-parochial area, and within the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire, and the Wapentake of Harthill. In the early 1770s the area that became Newport was the uncultivated and barren Walling Fen. A clay bed 30 feet (9 m) deep, and adjacent to the present village, was found and dug to provide material for the production of bricks, tiles and earthenware. A quantity of 1,700,000 tiles and 2,000,000 bricks were being made annually by 1823. The village that had grown over 50 years attained a population of 339 and a Wesleyan chapel, established 1814, with Sunday School to educate 200 poor children for Newport and surrounding villages. Occupations in 1823 for Newport, New Village and West Side, included nine farmers, two blacksmiths, seven brick and tile manufacturers, an earthenware manufacturer, two butchers, two carpenters, two coal merchants, three corn millers, five drapers, one of whom was a druggist, three grocers, two saddlers, two shoemakers,five tailors, eight master mariners, a bricklayer, a hair dresser, a sacking weaver & basket maker, two shopkeepers, a baker, a gardener, a schoolmaster, and the landlords of The Turk's Head, The King's Arms Inn, and The Crown & Anchor public houses. A packet boat conveyed goods and passengers by water to Hull and back once a week. A carrier conveyed goods and passengers by land to Hull, and to Howden, once a week. A mail coach ran to Hull and Doncaster daily.[3]

The 1897–98 Newport parish church of St Stephen was designated a Grade II listed building in 1987.[4]

Newport was served by Wallingfen railway station, formerly Newport, on the Hull and Barnsley Railway between 1885 and 1955.[5]

References
  1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Newport Parish (1170211229)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  2. UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Newport Parish (00FB100)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  3. Baines, Edward (1823). History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. p. 373.
  4. Historic England. "Church of St Stephen (1203313)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  5. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8.
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